After another day's use, changing certain preferences, saving the data, and closing the program, I re-opened the program to find that the GCM file had been overwritten with an empty file. Luckily I had kept a backup under a different filename, so I deleted the empty file and replaced it with a new, correct gcm file for that book.
Then I restarted GnuCash and found that the preferences had now reverted to the defaults again. So I looked to see what was saved in the configuration folders, and I found nothing there except empty folders. Is this normal for the flatpak version? On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > I just discovered that the Since Last Run Assistant has started running > when I open my data file with release 5.14 flatpak version in Linux. There > is something else going on as well, but the reason this happened is that > Flatpak does not automatically pick up preferences from the gcm or from an > existing environment file, but it sets a new environment with all the > default settings. Strangely, I have been entering data using this Flatpak > instance for several days, including frequently closing the program to > update the gcm file, but I didn't see the SLRA start when I open the data > file until after I had manually run the SLR once in that instance. > > The odd thing is that I had copied the gcm file for that book into the > correct location for flatpak but somehow I thought I was opening the > flatpak version, it apparently slipped and instead opened the the data file > that I had configured the flatpak instance to open with the old release 4.8 > version of Gnucash which I had not disabled. I didn't notice that error > until I saw that different account registers were open yet I was looking at > transactions that I had entered earlier today. > > Looking at ' > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#System-wide', it > does not appear that there is a straightforward way to copy the > configuration from a Windows machine to a flatpak instance or even to > figure out what information should go into a flatpak override file to match > an existing windows configuration. I cannot remember exactly which > preferences I have changed from the default over the last several years. > > I am trying a new (for me) technique to try to delete the old thread > history that Google hides from me so it doesn't reappear in my next > message. Lets see if it works. > -- > David Carlson > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
